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Reid, D. C. (Dennis C.), 1952-
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1952-
History
Dennis "D. C." Reid was born on August 5, 1952, in Calgary, Alberta.
He is a Canadian poet, novelist, and short-story writer. He also writes about fly fishing, high-end automobiles, round-the-world yacht races, and the human brain. The latter subject covers the last fifteen years of human brain science, creativity and how poets do their art. His work has been published in the U.S., United Kingdom, Mexico and India and has been translated into Spanish and Hindi. Reid is a fishing columnist for the Victoria Times Colonist. He is also the author of books of poems “The Women Who Surround Me” (1991), “Open 24 Hours” (1997), “What It Means To Be Human” (2009), "The Spirit of the Thing and the Thing Itself" (2015); a novel “The Knife Behind the Gills” (1995) and several non-fiction books, e.g., "A History of the Salmon Arm Golf Course, 1928-1992 (1993) (with Todor Davies), “How to Catch Salmon” (1995), “Fishing for Dreams: Notes from the Water's Edge” (2005), “Vancouver Island Fishing Guide” (2008) and “Catch Fish Have Fun - Langara Island, BC” (2011). Two of his poetry collections, “Love And Other Things That Hurt” (1999) and “The Hunger” (2004), have been nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.
He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.